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Date:	Wed, 11 Mar 2015 09:34:23 -0700
From:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] switchdev: select INET in Kconfig

2015-03-11 9:26 GMT-07:00 Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> wrote:
>> Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 04:36:16PM CET, alexei.starovoitov@...il.com wrote:
>>>On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 2:49 AM, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> wrote:
>>>> This would fix randconfig compile error:
>>>> net/built-in.o: In function `netdev_switch_fib_ipv4_abort':
>>>> (.text+0xf7811): undefined reference to `fib_flush_external'
>>>>
>>>> Also it fixes following warning:
>>>> warning: (NET_DSA) selects NET_SWITCHDEV which has unmet direct dependencies (NET && INET)
>>>>
>>>> Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
>>>> ---
>>>>  net/switchdev/Kconfig | 2 +-
>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/net/switchdev/Kconfig b/net/switchdev/Kconfig
>>>> index 86a47e1..3487940 100644
>>>> --- a/net/switchdev/Kconfig
>>>> +++ b/net/switchdev/Kconfig
>>>> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
>>>>
>>>>  config NET_SWITCHDEV
>>>>         bool "Switch (and switch-ish) device support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
>>>> -       depends on INET
>>>> +       select INET
>>>
>>>I believe Dave mentioned few times that 'select' is highly
>>>discouraged, since it doesn't work recursively.
>>>In this case only crazy config KVMTOOL_TEST_ENABLE
>>>is doing 'select INET' everything else in a tree is using
>>>'depends on INET'.
>>>Doing 'select NET_SWITCHDEV' was wrong in the first place.
>>
>> Ok, so you suggest just to change this to "depends on NET_SWITCHDEV" in
>> DSA and we are good?
>
> yes. that should work.
> Probably combining that line with 'depends on HAVE_NET_DSA' line

Works for me as well, thanks Jiri for looking into that.
-- 
Florian
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